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...sudden-death" period, ending whenever either made a goal. At the end of the period, Hitchcock picked up the ball near the sideboards, flicked it to Balding, who passed to Bostwick. Bostwick's shot split the goal and the U. S. Open Polo final, on International Field at Meadow Brook, L. I., was over, 7-to-6 for Greentree...
What was in many respects the most interesting game of this year's U. S. Open Polo Championship came the first day between the robin's-egg-blue stands that run the length of International Field at the Meadow Brook Club on Long Island. Hurricanes v. Hurlingham was, in a sense, a rehearsal for the matches for the Westchester Cup, No. 1 trophy of the game, which a picked U. S. team will defend in England next June. England lost the Westchester Cup in 1921 and has been trying ineffectually to get it back ever since. Ostensibly...
...rivalry be tween young men who have been living on Long Island and vying with each other at polo ever since they were old enough to pick up the rudiments of the world's most patrician pastime. On the same afternoon that Hurlingham was losing at Meadow Brook, Old Westbury was losing at nearby Bostwick Field to Seymour Knox's Aurora, champions in 1933. Two days later, Aurora nosed out the Hurricanes 11-to-10, for a place in the final against Greentree. Greentree, Jock Whitney's team, has never won the Open but this year, ahead...
...concluded that if polo was good enough for him to play, it was good enough for more people to watch than those who could park their cars along the boards at the dozen or so private fields where high-goal players customarily perform, or afford to buy seats at Meadow Brook. He improved Bostwick Field at Old Westbury until it became, next to Meadow Brook, the best playing surface on Long Island. He put up gigantic signs "Polo-50?" on four Long Island boulevards, built a grandstand (without boxes) to seat 3,000, had the biggest Scoreboard in the world...
...Great Meadow Prison, Comstock, N. Y., Earl Peacox, sentenced in 1928 to 20 years-to-life for the murder of his wife, passed his college entrance examinations, planned to enter the correspondence school of Columbia University...